Archive for the ‘China BPO’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A recent visit to the Philippine island of Cebu and a small discovery there set me to thinking about the course China has set itself to become a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) powerhouse. I had gone on a company trip for team building and other activities to the small subtropical ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I mentioned this before in a previous article, but I still crack up when I think of what an Indian friend of mine said to me recently. We were talking about how fast China has been developing its industries when he wise-cracked: "India could do with twenty years of no ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I'll be delivering the keynote address on "Investment Trends in China's Second- and Third-tier Cities" at an Investment conference hosted by the China Economic Review:
Investment in Jiaxing Xiuzhou: Hub of the Future
April 9th, 2008, Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai
Half-day conference
Jiaxing city, located in between Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou, ...
Posted in China R&D, China BPO, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, China Development Trends | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
I've been invited to serve as keynote speaker for what should prove an interesting conference. From the online brochure:
FORUM SYNOPSIS
Hangzhou - well known for its scenic sights and famous West Lake, is also one of the most dynamic cities in propelling China into the IT service industry. With more than ...
Posted in China BPO, China R&D, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It’s not often Chinese government officials invite me out to eat Mexican food, replete with tasty Magaritas. But there I was, stuffing my face with chicken fajitas on a Saturday night at Suzhou Industrial Park’s (SIP) newly opened Casa Zoe Tex Mex with two officials from nearby Wujiang Economic Trade ...
Posted in China BPO, China R&D, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, Suzhou, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
New Venture Outsourcing Blog has an insightful report about AT Kearney's study on the competitiveness of various countries in shared services such as IT- and Business Process Outsourcing, call centers and the like. Chris Harris, author of the blog, digs beneath the numbers and observes, "... you can see that ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sasha Ge, Marketing Manager over at Ascendas, the Singapore-based commercial real estate company, and her colleague Erin Li, a Senior Executive in the same department, invited me recently to their office at Ascendas Plaza in Shanghai to tell me more of what they’ve been up to in the company’s development ...
Posted in China BPO, China R&D, China IT Outsourcing, Services Outsourcing Trends, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Just before Spring Festival 2008 Andrew Hupert at China Solved and I had lunch together at Shanghai’s City Diner, across from the Kerry Center on Nanjing Xi Lu. Over steak sandwiches and fries we discussed the effects of China’s over-heated economic development. Many would agree that China has become a ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
November of last year the Financial Times reported the American private equity fund Chilton planned to set up an investment office in Chengdu. Chilton manages US$6.5 billion in assets from its Stamford, Connecticut headquarters. The fund manager currently manages US$450 million in investments in Asia. Though the company has a ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
A disclaimer for you francophones out there: the title is not mine. At least, the idea for the title is not mine. The allusion came from the lips of a Frenchman on the Hubei government’s website:
“Michel, general manager of Alstom, told reporter [sic] that he likes Wuhan and Hubei culture ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Dalian, Qingdao, Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, China Development Trends | 3 Comments »
